GSSS 2019-Project Presentations

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Presentation Schedule

2019 Global Sustainability Summer School Presentations Friday, July 26

Time Group Title

9:00 AM – Group 1 – City Scaling of Bike Data

9:15 AM – Group 2 – Modeling complexity and scale

9:30 AM – Group 3 – SDGs - Data-derived arguments for a more granular approach to the SDGs

9:45 AM - Group 4 – Urban Shrinkage and the Sustainability Gap

   10:05 AM – Break (25 min)

10:30 AM – Group 5 – Commutety - social connectivity for improved shared/public transit

10:50 AM – Group 6 – Cycling in São Paulo - using impact data to create a vision for cycling

11:20 AM – Group 7 – Dragging Change - mobilizing informal economies for greener cities in the global south

   12:00 PM – Lunch Break (1 hour)

1:00 PM – Group 8 – Analysis of EV Charging Stations

1:20 PM – Group 9 - Lighttime - night lights and energy scaling in cities

1:50 PM – Group 10 – SDGs and City Level Interventions

   2:30 PM – Break (30 min)

3:00 PM – Group 11 – Taking the “Pulse” of the City

3:20 PM – Farewell

Groups & Titles & Abstracts

Group 7
Dragging Change

The objective of the dragging change research project is to identify a best-practice model for including informal / slum neighborhood communities in the global climate change response. Formal governance generally has limited reach in less developed countries. Where it does reach, it is limited to top-down, regulatory control of a relatively small formal sector. To the extent that the informal / slum community is engaged, the relationship is often confrontational where the desired outcome is the removal of the community. Compounding these difficulties is the reality that climate change is generally not among the primary or immediate concerns of the informal / slum neighborhood communities. Drawing upon generally accepted network theory, while proposing a more sophisticated understanding of the weak – strong relationship distinction, the proposed research project provides a framework for behavioural change at the slum / informal neighbourhood community level, while maintaining reference to formal governance concerns.